The Daily Geek #111 - Notebooks and Apple, Internet Explorer 8 RC1, Blackberry Storm FAIL, Netflix

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Griffin talks about Notebooks accounting for 70% of mac sales for Apple. He also talks about Internet Explorer 8 RC1 and how quick it is. Griffin talked also about Blackberry Storm and how it's only sold 500,000 and other Storm issues. He also talks about Senate OKs delay for digital TV transition from Feb. 17th to June 12th. Griffin talks about Netflix and how they are doing so very well with their earnings and their subscriber base is 9.39million from 7.48million a year ago. Griffin ends the show talking about Carol Bartz's earnings call for Yahoo - can't wait to hear what she has to say.

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[rvercks99]

Are you going to try IE 8 RC1?? , it sounds like is better then the BETA version but still not 100% done so should any one try it or not?

[sweetgeektv]

rvercks99- we've been running windows 7 and ie8rc1 on a cheapo dell laptop here in the office and it's been running pretty smoothly minus the minor bugs you would expect in a beta OS.

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[tundradave24]

the only people ive seen that didnt like the storm got one of the first ones as this device was rushed to market lets not all forget about the iphones release problems too. the new storm os's make it so much faster than the one it was originally shipped with. also gota love the ability for actuall usefull applications that dont need to be approved by a parent company , like the insanely fast bolt browser that many storm owner run, rumored to be faster than safari...

[WiseGuy02]

Have the Storm, and yes, love it!

[sweetgeektv]

lol damn it! here I thought i really liked you there for a minute and you take all that likeness and throw it to the ground and stomp on it! lol. I'm just playing I'm all up for people doing whatever they want with whatever gadgets they want. What i don't like is when they try to force me to do it there way or use what they are. BAH on them. :) Have a great day rushringleader see ya tomorrow :)

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[rushringleader]

Ugh oh... I am one of them too lol.

[sweetgeektv]

haha you are lucky I can stand Google fanboys unlike macfanboys who I just can't deal with most of the time. :)

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[rushringleader]

What!?!?! Google=evil? Well, you just lost a subscriber. haha just kidding, but I am a Google fanboy and you bet I will continue to use Chrome haha.

[sweetgeektv]

rushringleader- don't hate on ie8 it's actually pretty decent. and remember chrome is Google which Google = evil.

That is all. :)

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV

[sweetgeektv]

badamc- the reviews of windows 7 are all around. I will tell you from our experience that it's actually been pretty good. IT's running really well on a cheapo dell laptop.

Thanks for being such a great viewer - i love reading the comments throughout the day as they come in and get emailed to my blackberry. :)

-Griffin / SweetGeekTV